He turns his niece into his creature, his own private girl assassin, forcing her to do the dirty work of the court: wreaking vengeance on his enemies, subduing those who dare to defy him.
The crime film stars Jason Statham as a retired assassin forced to return to work to save the kidnapped woman he loves, played by Jessica Alba.
Penn is the aptly named Jim Terrier, an ex-assassin forced to go "in the wind" after a high-profile killing, abandoning his true love (Jasmine Trinca), who promptly falls into the arms of slimeball Felix Javier Bardemm).
The idea of the assassin or criminal forced to lie low somewhere unfamiliar and just wait is a time-honoured idea: other examples are Martin McDonagh's In Bruges and Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences Of Love.
And yet here we are: Penn's veiny, gym-worked torso is certainly the key revelation in this creatively barren story of an ex-special forces assassin dragged back into the fray for the love of a good, imperilled woman.
Edward was initially defiant, but an attack by a Muslim assassin in June forced him to abandon any further campaigning.
The man with 63 goals this season, the original penalty area assassin, did not even force a save from Petr Cech.
Her mother, Yuk Young-soo, had been shot dead by a pro-North Korean assassin five years earlier, forcing her daughter into a role as the country's first lady.
A series of crises followed, reaching a climax on August 5, 1954, when assassins murdered an air force officer and attempted to kill Carlos Lacerda, the editor of an opposition newspaper.
Whatever his motivations, the Dubai videotape that he ordered up may have forced assassins across the globe to revise their methods.
